What is this thing called jazz? Originally a synonym for the old in-and-out (as in Armstrong's "Jazz Me Blues"), it is, in a word, perhaps the most universally...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 6, 2005 3:06 pm
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Well, guys and gals, the results of my last contest came in fast and thick and furious and the mighty Chris Dee was the first to correctly identify Traffic's...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 8, 2005 11:45 pm
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Saw "Abigail's Party" last night, in previews on Theater Row here, Mike Leigh's savage/banal/ whiplash-across-the-face-o'-bourgeois-London-life circa 1977,...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 17, 2005 2:53 am
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This is gonna be a quickie as I am out here in Riverside California visiting my folks for Thanksgiving, just polished off a phenomenal meal courtesy of world's...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 25, 2005 12:47 am
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Just back from Down Under, wotta cool country, my first time evah, great trip, several smoking shows with the Amorphous Androgynous crewe (the brainchild of...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 6, 2005 4:53 pm
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The great science fiction writer Robert Sheckley has died, so sayeth the New York Times today (lit crit James Shattuck also; his tome on Parisian...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 10, 2005 7:44 pm
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In the spirit of the holidays, some rough mixes and demos of several new songs Gary's been working on have just been posted on the home page of Gary's web site...
Sorry for the long hiatus from my last posting, but, well, sometimes its best to keep schtum until the thing in itself rears up Alien-like, erect and bristling...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 5, 2006 1:10 am
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The obverse of the preceeding end 'o year encomiums...encompassing some of the worst trends and developments I've observed and/or suffered through (Poooor...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 7, 2006 2:32 am
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And if memory serves John Cale scored the music for " The Tingler" , or parts of the score and if it isn't " The Tingler" and i'm all scuffed in my memory than...
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Jan 10, 2006 5:07 pm
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Played this humongous tribute to Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" album in front of 2-3000 folks at the Wintergarden in the World Financial Center here last...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 15, 2006 6:07 pm
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This my 51st Blog? Well then I have the pleasure of ushering in the next 50, at least (I'm just getting started!) by announcing that Webster Hodges--Webster...
Gary Lucas
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Jan 25, 2006 1:35 am
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Had a coupla hot gigs here last week, starting with a particulalry piquant set at Merkin Hall (y'all know 'bout Merkins, doncha? Cue Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson's...
Gary Lucas
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Feb 3, 2006 4:51 am
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Checked out my sax-man Jason Candler's other aggregation The Hungry March Band last night at CBGB's Gallery (well he's also in Earth People with Daniel Carter,...
Gary Lucas
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Feb 18, 2006 10:57 pm
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Debbie Harry sang an incandescent version of Roxy Music's "More Than This" (well it's really Bryan Ferry's tune all the way, and Bryan would have been...
Gary Lucas
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Feb 24, 2006 6:15 am
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Here in Shanti Shanti Shanti Town, uh oh seven at oceands eleven played a ring around the poesy party at the Bowery, the Bowery, the lay Bowery Poetry Club...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 5, 2006 1:08 am
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Little Steven is back this week on the "last" (yeah, right) Sopranos shoot de chute, essaying the role of the (made)man you love to hate after icing Arianna...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 10, 2006 6:27 pm
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Here now in London again--called away abruptly from NYC where I was preparing for my show with Jozef Van Wissem scheduled for this Saturday night at the Bowery...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 16, 2006 11:01 pm
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Here now in London again--called away abruptly from NYC where I was preparing for my show with Jozef Van Wissem scheduled for this Saturday night at the Bowery...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 16, 2006 11:01 pm
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I'm writing this from a computer terminal in the library of the Virginia Fine Arts Museum in Richmond. I'm down here to play my solo guitar scores live to...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 24, 2006 9:50 pm
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Left Richmond on Monday in a state of euphoric elation...the Saturday night gig went so well, a big crowd in a large old fashioned rock club (not a typical...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 30, 2006 6:29 am
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Just back from my pal Mark Gasper's 50th birthday party at the ever-so excellent Cafe Loup, (formerly the Bells of Hell, a kind of rockcrit heaven in the 70's...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 10, 2006 3:26 am
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Ach du himmel, here I am nursing the remnants of Russian germ-warfare, resulting in a nasty head cold and bronchial flareup, the result of too little sleep and...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 20, 2006 1:31 am
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So where wuz I, oh yes, holed up in the Youngster's Hotel, a probable youth hostel once upon a mattress, but plenty of grizzled elders were observed being...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 22, 2006 3:35 am
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Went to the Austrian Cultural Forum last night, just down the road apiece from MOMA on 52nd Street (legendary, officially designated "Swing Street", boulevard...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 29, 2006 9:22 pm
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Huzzah! The Village Green Preservation Society (member in good standing I am haha courtesy civic-minded Danny Fields) has successfully rolled back the...
Gary Lucas
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May 9, 2006 2:16 am
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...was the title of Bob "I Love a Man in Uniform" Hope's 1965 laff riot, and it might well serve as a credo for my recent tour there with the Magic Band,...
Gary Lucas
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May 24, 2006 10:28 pm
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Played the Bacardi B-Live promotion this week at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London with my old pal Cosmo (Colleen Murphy)--an absolute pleasure, a...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 4, 2006 11:26 pm
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"Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish, ketchup, and Jamaican Pickapeppa sauce the inner organs of beasts and fowls..." and so do I partaketh also (namely, chopped...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 16, 2006 9:05 pm
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The Times last Sunday ran a front page story about employers snooping on potential employees by scanning their blogs for tell-tale signs of (supposed) abberant...
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